It didn’t occur on the date the reader believed, but on Nov. 6, 2011, there was indeed a post by Guardian readers’ editor Chris Elliott which made a thinly veiled reference to CiF Watch, and argued that “reporters, editors and writers” must be more careful to avoid “lapses into language resonant of antisemitism”.

Whilst, I don’t know if anything we do, per the comment above, can exactly be characterized as “well-orchestrated” and, per SantaMoniker, the idea that we’re “powerful” is risible. Additionally, antisemitism at the Guardian clearly has not disappeared since Elliott’s warning (Bell’s cartoon on Nov. 15 depicting Bibi controlling Blair and Hague as puppets suggests the limits of Elliott’s control over such content), but if the result of our work is that the Guardian is even a little bit more careful to avoid having their voice “diminished” by evoking antisemitic canards, then we’re clearly doing something right.

Nat, I do admire your total lack of shame. Such a middle class English snob at heart. Mean-spirited and shallow to the core, continually trying to parade your moral and intellectuall superiority over your nemesis – the dear Mr Levick, and always coming away looking like a bitter self-obsessed asshole with a useless PHD.

An interesting aspect of choosing monikers by some loyal Guardinistas like this tovarish Kirov.During the Civil War, Kirov was one of the swashbuckling commissars in the North Caucasus beside Sergo and Mikoyan. In Astrakhan he enforced Bolshevik power in March 1919 with liberal blood-letting: over four thousand were killed. When a bourgeois was caught hiding his own furniture, Kirov ordered him shot.
In 1921, he became manager of the Azerbaijan party organization. Kirov supported Joseph Stalin loyally, and in 1926 he was rewarded with the command of the Leningrad party
A proud follower of one of the most heinous murderer of the twentieth century…

I feel a little bit sorry for SMKirov, and by extension, all of the CiF readers who share his underlying views. Honestly, his whining post was the tennis equivalent of a talentless schlub lofting a 15 MPH left-handed serve that barely cleared the next and bounced over to Serena Williams. Suffice it to say, the response to SMKirov was the tennis equivalent of a 100 MPH response from Serena!